Information Security and Organisational Agility in the Digital Era: Exploring the Role of IT Alignment

Abstract

Even though the private and commercial organisations have been in the forefront of the digital transformation journey, many public organisations have also joined the club anticipating the myriads of opportunities. For the most part, studies indicate that digital transformation provides the means to adopt new forms of communications enabling better collaborations and innovations where customers, suppliers, collaborators and partners come together utilising emerging technologies. In public organisational settings, digital transformation was found to be invaluable as it improves transparency and accountability, enabling the participation of various stakeholders in public decision making. However, the challenges of realising the anticipated success from digital transformation has also been recognised in the literature. The issue of IT alignment has been brought to the fore owing to the relationship it has with various organisational as well as managerial factors with implication on digital transformation success. This paper presents a research-in-progress investigating the influence of IT alignment and its antecedents on organisational agility, information security and digital transformation.